Anant Agarwal is a Staff Software Engineer and Technical Lead in Instacart's Data Infrastructure group, leading initiatives for developer and data productivity at scale. During his 4+ years at Instacart, he has developed mission-critical distributed platforms and orchestration systems that power the company's data pipelines, workflow engines, and services ecosystem, processing millions of workflows daily. Previously at VMware, as Staff Software Engineer and one of the early engineers on VMware Cloud on AWS, he built high availability and distributed resource scheduling systems for hybrid cloud environments.